Imagine an apple 🍎. Is your mental image more like a picture or more like a thought? In a new preprint led by Morgan McCarty—our lab's wonderful RA—we develop a new approach to this old cognitive science question and find that LLMs excel at tasks thought to be solvable only via visual imagery. 🧵

I’m out of ideas. Let’s fit a drift diffusion model and then put weird interpretations on the parameters. I love being so theory driven!

We’re at a 8 out of 10 on the Brawndo It’s What Plants Crave scale of stupid

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In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

excuse me what?

If you don’t have suspicion and contempt bordering on hatred for it, you have no business interacting with “AI.” There’s nothing for you there. Move on.

Gather round children, let me tell you the tale of the Dot Com Boom. Long before the great glass slabs, when the drives clicky-clacked…. techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/m...

This is just perfect www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/...

I have a Mac on developer preview and it got macOS 26. Horrific. It looks so so bad. How did no one stop this?

Interesting choice UCSB…….. news.ucsb.edu/2025/021958/...

There is just no end to silly pseudoscience stuff on the internet and I just love it…I mean, the harmless stuff.

I took chatgpt, and repeatedly typed in "howdy" and then blew a puff of air into its cornea (I said "[I blow a puff of air into your cornea]"). It started to HATE the word "howdy." Bang, foundation model of conditioning. Nature neuro paper easily

All of the bureaucracy, none of the rewards for dealing with the bureaucracy.

Yes www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

I am curious what it is like to see things with your eyes closed. Considering (I assume) the brain is broadly informed of this state. Here it's probably just a bunch of messy blurs, anyways. "lenses work even better with closed eyes, because the infrared light can easily penetrate the eyelids"

it is now called tim vickery famous smoked fish

I ate at Ted Peters famous smoked fish three times in three days and I have no regrets

Handing over academic institutional leadership to a roving class of elite administrators, none remaining in place long, just climbing ladders and cashing checks … was a mistake,

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

95% of Psych research www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B_u...

ChatGPT 4o completely fabricated a reference when I asked it a question. I thought we were past this. But sure, all diseases will be cured by AI in 10 years 🙄

It’s one supply chain, Michael. How long could it take to recreate? 2-3 months?

Anyone have any fun eye tracker demos that might not be in a standard library? (Eyelink)

This is what is happening with VSS, I think.

What happened to visionlist? Is it dead?

i think these people are in the grip of a genuine delusion www.nbcchicago.com/news/busines...

This summer, I will be hosting a virtual workshop for computer programming in cognitive neuroscience, funded by NSF. It is designed to teach early-career students the basics of R to analyze data from cognitive tasks. More info, including a syllabus and how to apply: sites.google.com/view/r-progr...

OK well this is one way to piss off the aliens... www.stereogum.com/2298393/imag...

External chair search for my department at UD. wittkieffer.com/positions/20...

DeepSeek: I asked it to describe the downside of the One China policy. To my surprise it actually made a detailed response. Then a few moments later, that response was replaced. The screenshots attached are the same chat. It’s done this a few times to me when discussing Taiwan, specifically.

I already loved Severance but now they’re using AFTERIMAGES?! This is the best show ever.

It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives

This is not business as usual. It’s not just a change in funding priorities going forward; it is the reneging on funding agreements and is profoundly disruptive for even those grants that will be found to be compliant. Meanwhile, trainees who often live paycheck to paycheck are going unpaid.

I am stressed out

We live in the ✨ world of tomorrow ✨

This site is about half as interesting as Nextdoor.

I like clicking "remember this device" and "don't ask again" but it never remembers and always asks again

I am not the football journalist

Covid was my one opportunity to pick up falconry and I whiffed

A reason for the peer review crisis. Articles published grew by 50% since 2016, "which has outpaced the limited growth, if any, in the number of practising scientists. Thus, publication workload per scientist (writing, reviewing, editing) has increased dramatically." arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884

My goal in life note is to get on SfN’s public sworn enemies list. I mean I assume this thing will catch on…

UD’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences is looking for a new chair of our department! We start considering applications Feb 1. Letters are not required for the first round of review. careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

I posted blue sky codes on a near code-sharing thing a while back. Two people joined using them. They never filled out any identifying information. They followed 0 people and 0 people followed them. They never posted anything. But now I am eternally haunted by notifications that they joined.

I want to fully move over here but "Taleb calls me an imbecile" is still on my Twitter bucket list...

We have a new open-rank / TT Clinical Psych position available at U of Delaware. Details at the link below, please share with anyone who might be interested! rb.gy/djgpr

We have a new open-rank / TT Clinical Psych position available at U of Delaware. Details at the link below, please share with anyone who might be interested! rb.gy/djgpr

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Many psychophysics & brain mapping studies use small samples. This often deeply confuses editors & reviewers trained on population statistics. It can also make it difficult to preregister & interpret such studies. Here we attempt to change that: doi.org/10.1101/2023... #neuroscience #visionscience

An interactive, clickable fMRI atlas (n = 40k, ukbiobank data) for associations with hundreds of traits and diseases. fmriatlas.org/index.html #neuroskyence #psyscisky